Staff, Aerospace Engineer
Summary
Redwire Space Missions LLC, has a current opportunity for a remote “Staff Aerospace Engineer”. Candidate must be available to travel as needed to other Redwire and Customer locations. In this role you will work as part of the aerospace mission analyst group performing modeling and simulation, digital engineering, software development, testing, and data analysis for exquisite and cutting-edge missions.
Responsibilities
- Leverage simulation to assess new design modalities in spaceflight
- Demonstrate and evangelize for simulation-driven design
- Validate simulation results and methodology with physical test
- Responsible for building digital prototypes
- Collaborate with systems engineering on requirements development and V&V
- Rapidly assess systems or approaches in support of Business Development and proposal writing
- Proactively interface with multi-disciplinary team members to optimize whole system designs that meet or exceed all technical, cost, and schedule requirements
- Apply engineering principles to ensure that designed components and systems meet all requirements.
- Generate technical documentation, reporting and presentations of design and analysis results.
- Design, plan, and deliver within milestones leveraging industry-standard tools to deliver mission needs
Ideal Experience
- Bachelors, Masters, or Ph.D degree in Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field
- Minimum 7 years of engineering experience in the space industry
- Experience with space systems engineering life cycle; including an understanding of space vehicle design, architecture development, space vehicle integration and test, and space operations development.
- Experience with space mission analysis tools like Redwire ACORN, Ansys STK, NASA GMAT, or FreeFlyer
- Experience interfacing directly with customer and leading technical discussions.
- Ability to travel - an average of 10-20% travel may be required.
- US citizenship is required with ability to acquire DOD Security Clearance.
Desired Skills
- Knowledge of aerospace engineering principles
- Ability to provide in-depth evaluation and analysis of unique complex technological issues.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent organization and time management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with Orbit Mechanics, Keplerian Physics, and Attitude Determination and Control.
- Experience with Spacecraft Modeling & Simulation tools (ACORN, Ansys STK)
- Experience with MBSE (Model-Based Systems Engineering)
- Experience with Software Development (C/C++, Python)
- Experience with flight software development and working with flight hardware
Grow with us as we innovate the next generation capabilities for a new era of space exploration! We offer a highly competitive benefits package along with a commitment to our core values of Integrity, Innovation, Impact, Inclusion, and Excellence.
Don’t meet every single requirement above? No worries. We want people who can grow, collaborate and build a stronger team. We strive to build a diverse and inclusive culture, so if you’re excited about this job posting, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Redwire is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Redwire is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
All offers of employment at Redwire are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check and your ability to provide proof of eligibility to work in the US. Note that some positions will also require US citizenship or ability to obtain a security clearance due to requirements of a classified program.
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR
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